Behind the disclosure: the Zip Slip vulnerability
In June 2018, the Snyk research team found many exploitable instances of the Zip Slip in various ecosystems that affected thousands of applications. This kind of wide reaching vulnerability requires a well thought out private disclosure process so that vulnerable libraries and projects are warned about their exposure before public disclosures are made. This post goes into the details of what we did throughout the process from discovery to disclosure, creating fix PRs and beyond.
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